A while ago a friend of mine contacted me because his father-in-law, Rich, had recently had a very sudden loss of vision. He knew that I dabbled in accessibility and wondered if I could help Rich get jump-started on what he could do to improve his situation. I have to admit that I was a […]
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The Night Before Christmas
Since it’s only a week until Christmas, I thought now would be a good time to resurrect the poem that has become a holiday tradition on the NosillaCast. So grab a hot beverage and some cookies, sit back, relax and enjoy a slightly modified version of The Night Before Christmas.
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NC #710 Apple Refurb Store, Apple Music on Amazon Echo, Security Bits
I was on Daily Tech News Show: Airplay 2: Remodel Boogaloo – DTNS 3429 at dailytechnewsshow.com. No live show next week. Bart comes on to tell us how much the Apple refurb store is. Then I’ll walk you through how to enable Apple Music on your Amazon Echo. The we have an extended play version […]
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CCATP #575 – Bart Busschots on PBS 68 of X – Bootstrap Navs
In this week’s installment of Programming By Stealth, Bart Busschots introduces us to how Bootstrap will help us create navigation in websites or web apps. This is using what Bootstrap calls the Nav component. As always we’ll learn how to style the navigation using Bootstrap Pills and Tabs. Then we’ll take it up a notch […]
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Security Bits – 14 December 2018
Followup Bloomberg’s controversial The Big Hack story SuperMicro released the results of an independent audit which found no evidence of hardware or software tampering on its motherboards — www.reuters.com/… & arstechnica.com/… The Marriott Breach Marriott Data Breach Is Traced to Chinese Hackers as U.S. Readies Crackdown on Beijing — www.nytimes.com/… An interesting related opinion piece […]
Continue readingMore TagHow to Enable Apple Music on Amazon Echo
On 14 December, Amazon began rolling out Apple Music on its Amazon Echo devices. This quick tutorial will walk you through how to enable it and if you want, to make Apple Music your default music library and station. Home Screen From the home screen, click the little lines in the upper left. Choose Things […]
Continue readingMore TagNC #709 Hydra HDR App, CalDigit TS3+ Thunderbolt 3 Dock, Power of AirPlay 2
We’ll start with some corrections of my Epson ES-300W review, then I’ll brag about my ScreenCasts Online tutorial about OmniDiskSweeper and GrandPerspective, and my appearance on Let’s Talk Apple. Finally I’ll get into new content by telling you about an HDR app called Hydra from Creaceed. I’ve got a review of my new favorite Thunderbolt […]
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The Power of AirPlay 2
You guys know that I’m not a huge listener of music, and to be honest, Steve doesn’t play music really often either. There are times that we like it though, like during the holiday season. Steve loves to play the Charlie Brown Christmas music and other classics. (Dorothy, I know you think anything after the […]
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Hydra HDR App for macOS
Hydra HDR Have you ever noticed that when you look at a beautiful scene, and then take a photograph of that same scene only to find there are dark shadows with no detail, or those puffy white clouds are all one continuous blob of white? That’s because our eyes can perceive a high dynamic range […]
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CCATP #574 – Nica Montfort on Being a Black Woman in Engineering, Tech and Podcasts
Nica Montfort, co-host of the snobOS Podcast (along with Terrance Gaines) answers my questions about her education (two STEM degrees, about to be a third), her mentors growing up, how it was getting an education as the only woman or the only black person in her classes. She then tells us why she and Terrance […]
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